Should the stars also go out? @Paravellex@shrike.club

@leo bummer!

@leo holy shit what I didn't even know there was a third

@abraxas of course not, that would have been even worse, but if the yurovsky note is correct those kids hardly died immediately. a bullet to the head would have been far more merciful than what ermikov did

sitting pretty at 147 jokers. i'm missing the glass joker and two legendaries

i got Trading Card pretty early on and used Immolate twice

and then after winning the run and getting the achievement i used Immolate again, just because i could

got my deck down to 11 cards in balatro :O

i voiced one of dirk's monologues from the latest hsbc upd8 https://www.tumblr.com/paravellex/748123404626001920/paravellex-dirk-monologue-608

The guys in gray on the right are what I'm talking about. What goes on here

When the fuck did the AL Central get good

and in isolation that might seem like it's meant to be a touching scene, but then you remember this audio log from the beginning of the game

this game is calling ecofascist players self-satisfied fools in the most roundabout possible way

at the end you're faced with a choice to embrace an infinite creative power to radically change and advance society, shut it down for now because Humanity Is Not Ready, or destroy it outright

if you take the third option, you later see your character going for a walk in the woods, coming across a magnificent stag, and kneeling in reverence at its feet

finished the talos principle 2. my review: 10/10 masterpiece. 6/10 kind of okay. puzzles were perfect. puzzles were too easy. loved the setting. seriously annoyed by the setting. didn't like the big reveal. loved what they did with the big reveal. the ending was perfect. the ending was too abrupt. byron can get it

something i've never understood and haven't been able to find info on: cuba, vietnam, laos, china, and north korea are all one-party states, with the latter two having minor parties under the direction of the main party, but the wikipedia infoboxes say there are independents in the legislatures of all five states. who are these guys? how can you legislate in a one-party state without being in that party?

i still have some gripes about the talos principle 2's worldbuilding but it's nice to see a well-written story with an overtly anti-ecofascist thesis

every so often the Nancy bot drops a comic which reminds you that Ernie Bushmiller was, in fact, a white guy in the 1940's